Windows XP/2003/2012 and greater support drive mapping back to the client workstation during a Terminal Services (Remote Desktop) session. This means you can copy files from the server to the client and vice versa.
Each volume (removable, fixed or network) available on the client workstation is mapped (A for drive A:, C for drive C:, X for drive X: etc) and the remote Terminal Services session inherits the user’s permission. So if you are logged on to the workstation as user A and you log in to the Terminal Services server as user B, the session will have access to the drives according to A’s permissions.
Drives can also be mapped like a network drive. The client drives are accessible as \\TSCLIENT\C. Note the client workstation’s machine name is not used, it is always referenced with the generic name TSCLIENT.
To display the files on TSCLIENT:
DIR \\TSCLIENT\C
So you can map a drive as follows:
NET USE Y: \\TSCLIENT\C
or simply use the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) syntax:
COPY \\TSCLIENT\C\MYDIR\*.XLS D:\DOCUMENTS\
example: ROBOCOPY \\TSCLIENT\C\MYDIR D:\DOCUMENTS *.XLS /Z /NP
Note: If you receive an “Attempt to access invalid address” error when using the UNC path \\tsclient\c, then the problem is on the client side.
Likely, the Windows firewall is turned on and blocking file shares, or “File and Printer Sharing For Microsoft Networks” is turned off in the NIC properties, the Server service is disabled, or simple file sharing is enabled on the client
